Social Media & Big Data Research
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Code

The following list provides links to the slides and code used in the guided coding sessions. The solutions to the challenges will be made available through RStudio Server.

July 2nd: Social Media and Big Data Research, Opportunities and Challenges.

  • SLIDES: Introduction to social media research

  • Introduction to RMarkdown and Setup (.Rmd file)

  • SLIDES: Basics of text analysis

  • Introduction to Automated Text Analysis of Social Media Text (.Rmd file)

  • Using Quanteda to Analyze Social Media Text (.Rmd file)

  • Lists, Functions, and Loops (.Rmd file)

  • Coding challenge 1 (.Rmd file)

July 3rd: Automated Text Analysis of Social Media Text.

  • SLIDES: Dictionary methods applied to social media text

  • Dictionary methods (.Rmd file)

  • Coding challenge 2 (.Rmd file)

  • SLIDES: Supervised machine learning

  • Supervised machine learning (.Rmd file)

  • Advanced supervised machine learning (.Rmd file)

  • Coding challenge 3 (.Rmd file)

July 4th: Exploratory Analysis of Large-Scale Social Media Data

  • SLIDES: Discovery in social media text

  • Discovery in social media text (.Rmd file)

  • Topic models (.Rmd file)

  • (Advanced) topic models (.Rmd file)

  • Coding challenge 4 (.Rmd file)

  • SLIDES: Analysis of social media networks

  • Introduction to social network analysis (.Rmd file)

  • Discovery in networks (.Rmd file)

  • Coding challenge 5 (.Rmd file)

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